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Laser Filamentation - Beyond Self-focusing and Plasma Defocusing
| Title: | Laser Filamentation - Beyond Self-focusing and Plasma Defocusing. |
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| Name(s): |
Lim, Khan, Author Richardson, Martin, Committee Chair Chang, Zenghu, Committee Member Christodoulides, Demetrios, Committee Member Zhang, Xi-Cheng, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2014 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Laser filamentation is a highly complex and dynamic nonlinear process that is sensitive to many physical parameters. The basic properties that define a filament consist of (i) a narrow, high intensity core that persists for distances much greater than the Rayleigh distance, (ii) a low density plasma channel existing within the filament core, and (iii) a supercontinuum generated over the course of filamentation. However, there remain many questions pertaining to how these basic properties are affected by changes in the conditions in which the filaments are formed; that is the premise of the work presented in this dissertation.To examine the effects of anomalous dispersion and of different multi-photon ionization regimes, filaments were formed in solids with different laser wavelengths. The results provided a better understanding of supercontinuum generation in the anomalous dispersion regime, and of how multi-photon ionization can affect the formation of filaments.Three different experiments were carried out on filamentation in air. The first was an investigation into the effects of geometrical focusing. A simplified theoretical model was derived to determine the transition of filamentation in the linear-focusing and nonlinear- focusing regimes. The second examined the effects of polarization on supercontinuum generation, where a polarization-dependent anomalous spectral broadening phenomenon due to molecular effects was identified. The third involved the characterization of filaments in the ultraviolet. The combination of physical mechanisms responsible for filamentation in the ultraviolet was found to be different from that in the near infrared. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0005520 (IID), ucf:50317 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2014-12-01 Ph.D. Optics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | Ultrafast optics -- nonlinear optics | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005520 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2019-12-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
